Portfolio Management: So Much More Than a Collection of Projects!

I’ve posted recently about Program Management – mainly in response to a reader’s question about how to group projects into programs.  Her question, in turn, was in response to one of my most popular posts on the distinctions between Project, Program and Portfolio Management. IT Portfolio Management Matters! I’m delighted that my old post on [...]

Shadow IT: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

I’ve posted before about Shadow IT, but I want to revisit the subject – I think it’s a big issue that needs some more air.  I’ve been reminded of this lately as I work with a client with a neglected IT capability.  A new CIO has been brought in (the first sign that a hitherto [...]

The Widening Gap In Business-IT Maturity Levels

We have been compiling the results of one facet of our multi-company research into business-IT maturity – the maturity assessment that companies took as part of participation in the research project. The purpose of the survey was to provide an assessment of business-IT capability in a corporation or business unit. We asked that the survey be [...]

“Edginess” and IT Innovation

In preparing for our upcoming Executive Perspective in Chicago on September 18/19, my team has been exploring what is meant by “edginess?”  What does edginess look like in its various forms?  When and how is edginess good, productive, appropriate?  When is it bad, counterproductive, inappropriate? John Hagel and John Seely Brown in their landmark paper, “From [...]

Business-IT Maturity – a helpful lens for the future?

The Next Generation Enterprise (NGE) is highly (totally?) dependent upon IT.  A rich and robust infrastructure, user friendly tools, on demand web services, on demand processing capacity and storage space are merely table stakes for tapping the next generation of collaborative, social networking, and marketing capabilities.  IT organizations need to partner with business units and [...]